Professor Frank Aarebrot honored by rector for TV lecture

Professor Frank Aarebrot was recently honored for his TV-lecture on Norwegian history by Rector Dag Rune Olsen of the University of Bergen. Professor Aarebrot’s popularizing of academic knowledge has been widely praised in the weeks ensuing the live-TV lecture.

The TV program, “200 years in 200 minutes”, was a huge hit with television viewers, with 230 000 Norwegians watching the entire 3 hours of the show, and 700 000 tuning in at some point during the broadcast or watching it online afterwards.

Professor Aarebrot was widely lauded after the show by viewers as well as prominent public officials, including Minister of Education Torbjørn Røe Isaken. To express the gratitude of the University of Bergen, Professor Aarebrot received a gift from Rector Dag Rune Olsen.